[78-L] Earl Scruggs has died

[Erwin Kluwer]

what about Harry Reser??????

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:17 PM, simmonssomer <simmonssomer at comcast.net>wrote:

> Uhhhh...what about Harry Reser ?
>
> Al Simmons
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Sanderson" <dwsanderson685 at roadrunner.com>
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> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 3:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Earl Scruggs has died
>
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> > On 3/29/2012 2:44 PM, Erwin Kluwer wrote:
> >> RIP Earl!
> >>
> >> Few musicians were as influential as Earl..
> >>
> >> On par with Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Blind lemon Jefferson,
> Chuck
> >> Berry, Bill Monroe,,,,
> >>
> >> Erwin
> >>
> >> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Cary Ginell<soundthink at live.com>
>  wrote:
> >>
> >>> The legendary bluegrass musician was 88. No one person was more
> >>> influential on an instrument than Scruggs was on the five-string banjo.
> >>>
> >>> Cary Ginell
> >
> > Influential, yes, but interesting in that he was not a leader and
> > creator like Monroe and others. I suppose a good comparison is Chet
> > Atkins, or Merle Travis. Scruggs took the indigenous three-finger banjo
> > style he learned in North Carolina and turned it into a polished,
> > sophisticated way of playing.
> >
> > His final steps toward the style seem to have been taken when he was
> > first with Bill Monroe - there are live recordings of him at that time
> > where his smooth flow of notes has yet to appear. And I wonder how much
> > Monroe himself had to do with developing Scruggs - Bill was very much a
> > teacher and maestro to the musicians who worked with him, always. And
> > there is partly the question of timeliness - without a venue that
> > Monroe's creation of Bluegrass offered, what would Scruggs have done
> > with his music?
> >
> >
> > --
> > David Sanderson
> > East Waterford Maine
> > dwsanderson685 at roadrunner.com
> > http://www.dwsanderson.com
> >
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